Previously a community organizer in the inner city of Cleveland, Ohio, Sara Stevenson has called New Orleans her home for almost 40 years. She created events and programs for the New Orleans Arts Council, the Children’s Arts Council, and the Contemporary Arts Center before she founded The Country Day Creative Arts Program at Metairie Park Country Day School. Recently retired, she was director since its inception for 35 years. Sara graduated from Friends World College having studied painting and silversmithing through apprenticeships in Zuni, New Mexico, Mexico, England, and Spain. Once in New Orleans, she attended the New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts for 10 years where she received honorable mention for her drawings of the human form. When she discovered clay, she immersed herself in intensive study under sculptor, Evelyn Jordan. She continues to explore this medium vigorously, still concentrating on the figure. Sara has shown and sold her work throughout New Orleans.